Typographical composing and line-casting machine.



K. Rb'GER.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29. 1914- LQ% Patented Jan.22,1918'.

. TED @TATEd PATENT KARL RGGER, OIF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIG-NOR TO MERGEN'II-IALER LINO'IYPE 7 COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

' TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND LINE-CASTING MACHINE.

To all whom it may; concern.

Be it known that I, KARL Room, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 38 Teltowerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing and Line-Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical composing and line casting machines of the particular construction in which lines of matrices and expansible wedge space bars are presented in a conveyor or elevator in front of a mold, and after acast has'been made in that mold and against the line of matrices and space bars, the said conveyer conveysthe composed line, still comprising the matrices and space bars, directly to the distributing mechanism, without the intermediary of other carriers or conveyers. The composed line is then pushed out of the conveyer into the distributing mechanism and during that operation the space bars are separated. from the matrices and, descend to,

their magazine, while the matrices continue on from the distributer to be distr buted each into its respectlve cl1annel,-accord1ng to the character of the formative cavity thereof. a

In a line casting machine such as that known commercially under the trade mark Linotype, there are two devices known respectively as the first elevator and the second elevator, the first elevator serving, as in the present invention, to supportthe composed line of matrices and space bars during the casting operation, and the second elevator serving to convey the matrices of the composed line, and after the space bars have been separated therefrom, up to the distributing mechanism. i

The device which is employed for supporting the composed line in front of the casting mold and afterward conveying the said composed line directly up to the distributing mechanism, is substantially of similar construction as the first elevator of known typographical machines.

The invention has for its object to provide new or improved means whereby the space bars can be separated [from the matrices during their journey from the conveyer to the distributing mechanism. The invention will now be described by Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 191%..

Application filed June 29, 1914. Serial No. 847,825.

With reference to Fig. 1, 1 represents the conveyer, which may be substantially of the same construction as that of the before rcferred to first elevator, this conveyer serving to receive a line of matrices composed from the magazine 2, interspersed with eX pansible space bars such as that represented in Fi 3 and hereinafter more particularly descri ed.

After the composed line of matrices and space bars has been received in the head of the conveyer 1, the latter presents it in front of one of the molds 4 which, in well known manner, may be carried in a rotatable mold wheel 5, and when the composed line is then presented to the mold, the latter isfilled with metal to form a slug bearing on its front edge a counterpart of the line of characters presented by the matrices of the composed line.

After theslug has been cast as just de scribed, the conveyer 1 ascends so as to move its head, carrying the composed line, through the path indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and at the end of this travel any of the movable wedges of the space bar not already descended by gravity into their normal positions, abut against a V-shaped bar 6, which is thus caused to positively lower the said wedges and thereby loosen them within the composed line. Immediately after this juncture, the composed line of matrices and space bars is pushed out of the The rail leads the matrices suspended thereon,into theso-called distributer box 10,

which is provided with the usualverticallyreciprocating finger 11 serving to lift each matrix as it, in turn, takes its place at the head or leading end of the line. The matrices thus raised by the finger 11 are brought into engagement with the-well known distributing screws which carry them along the equally well known permuted distributing bar 12, from which the matrices become detached as each arrives overthe special channel allotted to it.

space bars which had then not already left,

the line, engage with the inclined undersurfaces of the cams 14 and are thereby depressed, so that the space bars cannot further remain in the line. The two cams 1 1,

as shown in Fig. 3, are secured one on either side of the distributing rail 8.

In cases in which the chute 9 is not coin cident with, or immediately beneath, the receiving end of the distrib'uter rail 8, the space ars are each provided with distribut ing teeth 16 so that they will themselves be come attached to and suspended from the ribbed toothed rail 8, and the ribs of this rail with which those teeth are engaged are cut away, as indicated at 17' in" Fig. 2, so that when the space bars arrive at'th'is part of the said rail they become disengaged from it and fall into the chute 9, this disengagement being insured by the cams 1 1 as previously described in connection with Fig. 1.

The expansible space bars, exceptingas regards the before-described teeth 16, are of the usual well known construction, each comprising two permanently connected wedges 18, 19, 011 the former of which, 'vizr the wedge 18, the said teeth are formed, and the latter and longer of which is capable of bcing'raised and lowered relatively to the other wedge, so asto increase and decrease respectively its effective thickness in the composed line.

After the composed line ofmatrices and space bars has been pushed out of the conveyor 1, as previously described, the latter descends to the position in which it'receives another line, which may then be in course of composition, and after that, that line is presented to the mold 4 to recommence another cycle of the machine.

bination of a composed line of matrices and justifying spacers, the latter ach being provided with the same distributing combination, a distributer box, a line transporter. movableinto operative relation to the distributer box, and-a longitudinally ribbed'rail along which the matrices and spacers are transferred from the transporter tothe distributer box, and having a distributing combination to cooperate with those of the spac ers and permit theirdisengagement therefrom. i j r 2. In a typographical machine, the come bination of a composed'line of matrices and justifying spacers, the latter each being-provided with the same. distributing .combina tion, a distributer box, a line transporter movable into operative relation tothe dis tributer box, and alongitudinally ribbed rail along which the matrices and spacers are transferred from the transporter to the distributer box, and having .a distributing combination to, cooperate with those of the spacers and permit their disengagement therefrom, a cam piece attached to the rail and .adapted to engage the upper ends of the spacers to insuretheir disengagement therefrom. i f V 3. In a typographical machine, the combination of a composed line of matrices and justifying spacers, the latter each being provided with a pair of sustaining teeth, a distributer box, a line transporter movable into. operative relation to the distributer box, a longitudinally ribbed rail'along which the matrices and spacers are transferredfrom the transporter to the distributer box, and a conveying chute underlying the ribbed rail, the said ribbed rail having ribs discontinued above the chute to permit the spacers to drop therefrom into the chute during transfer. Y

4. In a typographical composing andline casting machine, the combination with a composed line of matrices and space bars, a distributer box adapted to separatethe advancing matrices in succession, a permuted distributer railreceiving the matrices after such separation, a ribbed'railto which the space bars and matrices; are attached by meansof distributing teeth on those space bars and matrices before they reach the distributer-box, a chute beneath thisribbed eeann;

rail, the ribs of which latter to which the space bars are attached being discontinued over the chute, and cams attached to this ribbed rail also above the chute and adapted to depress the space bars.

5. In a typographical machine, the combination of distributing mechanism, a dis tributer box from which the matrices are fed individually thereto, a ribbed rail leading into the box, and justifying spacers formed with sustaining teeth to engage the rail, the said rail having its ribs cut away at a point in its length to permit the disengagement of the spacers therefrom, in the manner and for the purpose described.

6. In a typographical machine, the combination of distributing mechanism, a distributer box from Which the matrices are fed individually thereto, a V-shaped rail extending into the boX and having a series of ribs on opposite sides, and a justifying spacer formed with a pair of teeth to engage the upper pair of ribs on the rail, the said upper ribs being cut away at a point in their length to permit the disengagement of the spacer from the ribs.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence 01 two Witnesses.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

